"Maybe I’ll never be able to do what I hope to, but at least I have hope."
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"A bodhisattva is someone who has compassion within himself or herself and who is able to make another person smile or help someone suffer less. Every one of us is capable of this."
"Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!"
"I have a very thick skin. I take everything that comes and let it bounce right off me because I know the time will come when nobody will be able to speak falsely."
"To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast"
"We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer."
"Caring comes from being able to put yourself in the position of the other person."
"Any job worth doing is worth doing well. But to be able to do that, you have to do it over and over again."
"The goal of the Web is to serve humanity. We build it now so that those who come to it later will be able to create things that we cannot ourselves imagine."
"Great persons are able to do great kindnesses."
"I am able to love my God because He gives me freedom to deny Him."
"But happiness is being able to hope, however faintly, for happiness. So, at least, we must believe if we are to live in the world of today."
"Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be effective if it happens in the natural course of therapy and if the client is able to maintain adult consciousness at the same time."
"Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons."
"You will never be able to find happiness if you stay attached to the wrong person and don't move on."
"I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through."
"Earn as much money as you possibly can and as quickly as you can. The sooner you get money out of the way, the sooner you will be able to get to the rest of your problems in style."
"Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time."
"We live in an age which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and justice in the deepest secrecy, as if it were a crime."
"Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they're born."